Learn Albanian

Albanian is the official language of Albania, where it is spoken by approximately four million native speakers. A million more people speak Albanian in Yugoslavia, and there are a number of native speakers of Albanian dialects scattered throughout Greece and Italy.

The Albanian language has been written with a variety of alphabets over the course of its history, including variations of the Greek alphabet, the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Turkish Arabic alphabet. However, in the early 1900s, the government chose a variation on the Latin alphabet (the same alphabet used in English) as the standard alphabet.

There are thirty-six letters in this Albanian alphabet, including seven vowels, thirteen regular consonants, and nine consonants that are digraphs, meaning that they are written as a combination of two letters. These digraphs (dh, gj, ll, nj, rr, sh, th, xh, and zh) are each considered to be a single letter, and each has its own entry in Albanian dictionaries.

Free Resources to Learn Albanian

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